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History of Ideas in Software Testing

Monday March 23rd 2009 2am Rated 4 21 Comments Agile Performance Automation Metrics Development Acceptance Exploratory Functional Integration Process Software Strategy Testing Teams Unit Six Sigma selenium Web
Yesterday I started reading Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams by Crispin and Gregory.

A DAY in the Life of a Software Tester

Monday December 20th 2010 11am Rated 12 6 Comments ST&QA Magazine Teams Software
I get in to the office a little early, before everyone else. I will have some time to settle in before things get crazy. I’ll have some quiet time to plan and organize my schedule for the day before the mad rush at the coffee machine. The masses start shuffling in at 9am. By 9 or 10am everyone is in the office.
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Test Estimation

Friday January 4th 7am Rated 11 6 Comments Tools Trends Testing Teams
We have executed many projects Large Projects, Small Projects etc. Sometimes we miss our testing deadlines because there is no defined criterion that is used to build our execution test plan. To help avoid missing our deadlines we have prepared these Test Estimation guidelines. In this article I present the various Test estimation techniques which will help us in proper execution of the Testing projects.
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5 Tips for Building Trust

Thursday December 2nd 2010 10am Rated 10 4 Comments Teams Project Management Management Leadership offshore
If you are coming in to a project in a situation where trust has been violated, you may notice a few side effects. If your manager seems to be micromanaging you, ask some questions about what happened in the past. You may notice a project manager or dev manager is negative overall about testing and begrudges having testing at all.
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Motivating Test Teams

Tuesday October 13th 2009 7am Rated 0 4 Comments Newsletters Management Teams
It was some years later when I was the test manager at a different company ordering sushi for an employee when it resonated with me that part of a manager’s job is taking care of people. I’m not trying to be maternal but instead practical…
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Of "Jelled" Teams

Monday July 27th 2009 2pm Rated 0 4 Comments Teams
I've been at Socialtext for about a year and a half now, and I just realized that so has everyone else on the engineering team; our two short-timers are Jeremy and Audrey, who are just coming up on one-year anniversaries.

DaVita: a Quality Culture Focused on Flawless Execution

Monday October 11th 2010 12am Rated 7 3 Comments ST&QA Magazine Teams Metrics Life Cycle Development Process Software Testing Training Tools
DaVita is a unique place to work. The word DaVita means “giving life,” and when asked what our teammates (employees) do for a living, each is proud to respond with a simple answer: “I give life.” Providing dialysis treatments to one in three Americans with kidney failure only scratches the surface of what we do. We are a community first and a company second, and while we promote a healthy balance of work and life, we also expect the highest level of performance in everything we do. We believe the work that each of our teammates does directly affect the lives of our chronically ill patients – and that includes our IT team.
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Maybe it is like building houses

Thursday December 29th 2011 11am Rated 6 3 Comments Software Test and QA Development Editorial Process Strategy Teams Testing
Where Matt points out that the folks claiming that software dev is like building houses not only don't understand software development ... they probably don't understand building houses, either.

Technicians Vs. Professionals

Wednesday April 20th 2011 8pm Rated 4 3 Comments Software Testing Performance Process Teams Strategy
Matt continues his series on the productivity killers you /won't/ find in the textbooks

Keys to Successful Software Testing Teams

Thursday December 30th 2010 5pm Rated 8 2 Comments Strategy Testing Management Teams Software
So, everyone makes mistakes. And how lucky are the developers to have a fully dedicated team to catch their mistakes before the product hits the market. Now what about the testers? Who will catch their mistakes?
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Real-Life Test Management Challenges & Suitable Solutions

Thursday September 23rd 2010 1pm Rated 3 2 Comments STP Community News Management Teams Best Practices Career Video Membership Software Web
Join us for this Software Test Professionals community webcast.
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Agile Testing... Why Dig into the Technical Design

Wednesday September 1st 2010 11am Rated 3 2 Comments Agile Development Acceptance Integration Quality Assurance Software Testing Teams Software Test Professionals Conference Web
There are cases where not knowing the inner working of your application is a valid approach to testing. However, I believe that we may make incorrect assumptions when we don’t learn the technical aspects of our software projects and could expose ourselves to unnecessary risks.
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Women of Influence

Friday January 1st 2010 8am Rated 1 2 Comments Test and QA Agile Management Automation Functional Process Testing Certification Services Software Teams Career Web Tools
A diverse group of the world’s top women software testers — 13 in all — share career highlights and insights into the profession and the industry, past, present and future.
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Agile Projects: 6 Ways to Avoid the ‘Mini-Waterfall’

Friday January 1st 2010 8am Rated 0 2 Comments Agile Automation Development Testing Acceptance Functional Regression Teams Unit Web Tools
Don’t let one iteration cascade into the next. Follow these suggestions to streamline your testing.
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Sources of (test) power - IV

Thursday October 7th 2010 7am Rated 5 1 Comment Editorial Leadership Strategy Teams Software Testing
The power of the ask

Configuration Testing Tip

Tuesday August 24th 2010 10am Rated 5 1 Comment Testing Automation Development Teams Management Services Metrics Black Box Open Source Process Quality Assurance Software Strategy Software Test Professionals Conference Requirements Web
In my recent paper published in the July/August issue of the ST&QA magazine, I gave tips on improving test coverage
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A New Book: A New Perspective…

Tuesday September 28th 2010 9am Rated 3 1 Comment Test and QA Software Testing Strategy Teams Membership Development Process Six Sigma
Over the past year as the Director of Membership & Publications, I have had the opportunity to talk with and work with some great individuals. As authors have submitted content for the STP magazine, newsletters, Local Interest Chapter and conference presentations, my understanding of testing and quality has continued to expand as a result of all of this great material.

Productivity Killer: Maslow in the Organization

Monday April 25th 2011 11am Rated 2 1 Comment Software Testing Teams Trends Project Management Leadership Jobs
Where Matt spends a minute moments writing about Maslow's Hierarchy of needs, and what it might mean for you.

My 'take' on Agile -- or the Manifesto, elaborated

Tuesday December 21st 2010 7am Rated 2 1 Comment Testing Software Test and QA Teams Strategy Agile Development
Matt Heusser explains his take on Agile Software Development, and how it might 'plug in' a recent book on Agile coaching.
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